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drams, mixed for a dofe, every day, or once in twelve 
hours. Should the difcharge arife from a cold, it will 
foon be removed by thefe means. When confiderable 
ulceration is perceived in the nofe, with tlie other conco¬ 
mitant fymptomsof the glanders, every prudent man will 
deltroy the horfe inltantly ; for it is as contagious as the 
plague. 
The mod effedlual mode of purifying ftables in which 
horfes have unfortunately had this terrible malady, is 
to remove, or carefully vvafli, every thing on which the 
horfe may have depofited any of the infectious matter, 
(which is equally certain of palling into the fyltcm as the 
hydrophobia from the bite of a mad dog,) and afterwards 
to cover every part of the (table with a thick coat of lime 
and (ize. Since it is now univerfally admitted that this 
diforder has. baffled every human endeavour to effeCt a 
cure, up to the prefent moment, we forbear to recom¬ 
mend or to offer any medical experiments, which might, 
during their progrefs, unfortunately by fome accident be 
the mean of communicating the difeafe to a found horfe 
belonging either to one’s felf or a neighbour ; the ill con- 
fequence of which is 1 'ufficiently obvious. But that ex¬ 
periments for the purpofe of reaching the feat of this de- 
firuCtive malady ought to be followed up by profeffional 
men, until the means of cure can be difeovered, every 
judicious perfon will allow ; but thefe experiments ought 
to be conducted in fituations where it will be impoffible 
for the infection to reach any found and healthful cattle. 
Farcy. —This is a difeafe of the lymphatics, which 
may be readily afeertained by every oblerver, it being 
moflly fituated on the infrdes of the legs, where the lym¬ 
phatic veflels are particularly large ; as may be feeninthe 
Farriery Plate'VlI. fig. 9. Writers on farriery have con- 
ftantly rcprelented it as a diforder of the blood-veffels ; 
but our recent progrefs in equine anatomy has enabled 
profelfor Coleman to demonlh'ate very fatisfaftorily, that 
there is no Inch thing as farcy in the blood-veffels, be- 
caufe the veins are not at all affedfted. It is, in reality, a 
difeafe of tlie abforbents, which nice attention to modern 
improvement has reduced to two heads ; tlie acute, and 
the chronic. The full will produce the glanders, by in¬ 
jecting the nofirils of a found horfe with the matter taken 
from a farcy horfe. The firth fymptoms of this are difeo¬ 
vered by a running at the nple, a kind of watery yellow 
ferofity, which loon gets dry, and forms a crull at the ex¬ 
tremity of the nofe, tlie noftrils fwell, and the glands un¬ 
der the jaws alfo ; this is a fymp.tom that the farcy has 
degenerated into the glanders. But the glanders do not 
produce the farcy.- 
The chronical farcy is ajn infectious diforder, which 
takes place in confequence qfia relaxation and obltruCtion 
in the abforbent fyltem, which produces a fwellingin the 
legs, belly, and other parti of the body, where the lac¬ 
teal branches are in-the greatefi number. Thefe partial 
Iwellings are known by t he name of water farcy.- But, 
in the progrefs of the difeafe, there foon fucceeds an en¬ 
largement of the lymphatic veffels alfo, which appear 
like knotted cords; thele knots are produced by the 
valves with which thefe delicate veffels are particularly 
dipplied. The knotted oblirudlions taking place at eacli 
valve, occafionthem to burrt, and produce ulcersof afoul 
and offenfive nature, and difficult to cure ; and which, in 
a very lliort time, v fpread all over the body. This is the 
difeafe which farriers c;Ml the corded or button farcy. If 
the diforder has been neglected or improperly treated, the 
Iwellings in the legs and other parts increafe ; the horfe 
rejedts his food ; grows lean ; a confumptive fever fol¬ 
lows ; and a running at the nofe foon takes place, which 
in its further progrefs terminates in a fwellingof the nof- 
trils and head ; at which .period, the fymptoms announce 
that this fpecies of farcy has alfo degenerated into the 
gla nders. 
The cure of farcy is to be attempted by the application- 
ot blifters, frequently repeated, at lead as often as necef- 
iity requires ; as well as the application of the actual cau- 
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tery, which is the mod ufefni and effeChial method w hen 
there are ulcers. The effeCt of thefe applications is, to 
diminilh the inflammation of the abforbents, by creating 
an irritation upon ihe (kin ; while by flimulating the ex¬ 
ternal branches of the abforbents, the aClion of the in¬ 
ternal is alfo increafed. This efieCb mull be well leconded 
by the life of diuretics frequently repeated, and a great 
deal of exercife, fo as to increafe the perfp.iration as much 
as poflible, but without violence to the horfe. The fol¬ 
lowing ball will greatly aflift in forwarding the cure : 
Take verdigreafe two drams, common turpentine half 
an ounce, mix together, and make two balls, one to be 
given in the morning, and the other at night; the verd - 
gteafe may be increafed, by degrees, to the dofe of three 
drams or half an ounce a-day. If the horfe becomes 
coflive, let him have twoclyilers a-day, one in the morn¬ 
ing and the other at night ; interpofmg a purgative ball 
of feven drams of aloes and half a dram o! calomel, 
every feven or eight days. After having gone through 
this courfe, give the following bails : Take green cop¬ 
per, in powder, an ounce, Venice turpentine diffident to 
make the whole into eight balls, with linfeed flour ; one 
to be given every morning ; affifted by clyflers, whenever 
the conftipated (late of the redtum or colon (hall appear 
to render them neceffary ; for they are always a-fafe and 
eafy mode of invigorating the peri Hal tic motion of the 
bowels, fo effential to the healthful Hate ot the horfe. 
If neceflity requires, the green copper may be increafed 
to the dole of three drams a-day, or more. Split beans 
are alfo recommended in farcy, as an extremely good 
tonic. 
DISEASES of the EYES. 
Ophthalmia, or a difeafed (late of the membranes 
which invert the eyes, are by no means fo numerous as in 
the human fpecies ; but, in horfes, they are much more 
obffinate of cure. Symptoms of ophthalmia are the fol¬ 
lowing : the eyelids drop, the tears run over the cheeks, 
and Hill more pafs through the nafal du<Sl, where drops of 
fluid may be conftantly leen at its extremity, which never 
appear in the heal thy (late of the eye; this is owing to 
an increafed fecretion, and not to any difeafe of the dud; 
the haw is thrown over the eye by the dropping of the 
eyelids, in order to prevent the admiffion ol the rays ot 
light, which, in this (late of the eye, would irritate it, 
and increafe the pain. But ignorant farriers, milhrking 
the effect, and thinking the haw to be the caufe ot ttie 
difeafe, have really been in the habit of cutting out tins 
defence with which nature has provided the animal, to 
enable it to wipe and cteanfe the external coats of the eye 
from any foul or offending matter. 
The attacks of inflammation not unfrequently difappea-r 
for a time, or, at lead, become much lels diilinguilhable, 
and then return again, obferving fomething like regular 
periods of acceflion and remillion ; and from hence thedil- 
eafe has been termed by fome the moon-b/indnejs, and thele 
changes were confidered as under the influence of this pla¬ 
ner, and correfponding with the periods of its change ; 
there are, however, other caitfes more powerful in their 
influence, to which thefe changes in this diforder may, 
with more appearance of truth, be attributed, as impro¬ 
per expofure to exceflive cold, or drafts of air ; to a clofe, 
low, over-heated, liable, or bidden alternations from the 
one to the other; violent exercife and fweating; then 
walking with cold water, leaving the hair drenched with 
it ; acrid volatile falts rifingfrom the dung ; over-feeding 
witli too hot, dry, and flimulating, food, and all other 
caufes inducing an increafed adlion of the heart and ar¬ 
teries, naturally tend to induce a recurrence of this com¬ 
plaint. 
As this difeafe is one of the moll interelling in the vete¬ 
rinary art, and tlie moll neceffary to be well underftood,- 
as well by profefiional men, as by dealers and polfelfors of 
horfes, we (hall deferibe at fome length the appearances- 
by which it is known to exifl, and the means that have 
hitherto been employed, as far as they have come to our 
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